Schedule for Week of 31 March:
You are required to bring your Short Story Anthology to class EVERYDAY! Failure to do so will result in a "0" for entering 404 unprepared-without this assigned text. Do NOT ask me for permission to go to your locker to retrieve it-permission to do so will be denied! 

We will continue with the short story unit.

On Monday, 31 March you will "randomly" be assigned to a "collaborative" learning group to work on critical thinking questions for The Lottery. You must complete ALL of the questions prior to the end of the BAND.

On Tuesday, 1 April-you may OR may not be administered a QUIZ for The Lottery.

Specific readings will be announced on Monday-as well as-the related HOMEWORK assignments that will be due this week.

Schedule for Week of 24 March

Just a reminder: You must read A Piece of Steak in preparation for Monday's class (3/24) Just in case you neglected to bring your anthology home, click on the title for this selection.
You may desire to listen to the story as you read along in your text: https://librivox.org/short-story-collection-vol-041-by-various/


Remind your folks about the Parent/Teacher Conferences on Thursday and Friday of this week.

Our Short Story Unit Begins...
Just in case you neglect to bring your short story anthology home to complete a homework assignment and/or you prefer to annotate/mark-up the text, I have included the following links to many of the stories that are part of our unit for study:


http://americanliterature.com/100-great-short-stories
http://www.classicshorts.com/
http://www.springwood-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/library/resources/e-resources/short-stories

Please read "The Fever Tree" on page 122 in your Short Story Anthology for Wednesday, 19 March. (You may or may NOT have a QUIZ on this short story.)

SAT Vocabulary QUIZ List 17 on Thursday, 20 March.

Schedule for Week of 10 March

ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
You must bring in your copy Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men on Monday, 10 March. Diedrich blundered when he assumed that ALL groups had finished the Chapter 5 group activity. This must be completed so a grade can be given-they are too incomplete to be graded fairly.


SAT Vocabulary QUIZ (List 17) on Thursday, 13 March.
You will soon be quizzed on "meaningful word-parts".